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Articles by Frank Furedi
Crewe by-election: Farce War, not Class War
spiked,
21 May 2008
The Labour Party’s nasty campaign in Crewe and Nantwich exposes the petty, personalised and chauvinistic strain in contemporary politics.
Crusaders in search of a crusade
spiked,
14 May 2008
From Burma to China to Austria, why do Western observers always seek signs of human depravity?
Let’s turn a new page in the world of reading
spiked,
12 May 2008
Teaching children that books are mere resources to be ‘consumed’ is having a baleful impact on reading, culture and the quality of public life.
Letting the truth of music speak for itself
Daily Telegraph,
26 April 2008
My 1968
spiked,
25 April 2008
As student radicals who believed ‘Anything Is Possible’, we rattled our elders in the heady year of 1968. But looking back, it seems the real driving force of Sixties radicalism was the crisis and cowardice of the elite itself.
Flat-pack degrees
The Guardian,
22 April 2008
Learn how to sell furniture - but not at university.
It’s a vxd question: why your lecture isn’t as important as an SMS
Times Higher Education,
16 April 2008
Academics' insecurity about their lecturing skills has hit new lows in an age of unrepentantly rude mobile phone users.
The truth about music
spiked,
14 April 2008
There is no ‘truer truth’ than that which comes through music, said Robert Browning. Which makes today’s transformation of music into a tool of social policy all the more tragic.
A Rumsfeldian attack on mothers-to-be
spiked,
26 March 2008
The new warning that pregnant women should avoid booze is not evidence-based – rather it springs from the relentless moralisation of pregnancy.
Gordon Brown’s register of risks? Rip it up
spiked,
25 March 2008
By labelling everything from terror to flu as a ‘security threat’, the PM is nurturing a jittery nation.
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